Management Change

Tribune Co. has named the leadership team for Tribune Publishing, which is preparing to spin off as a separate newspaper company later this year. Eddy Hartenstein, publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times, will serve as non-executive chairman of the board, and publishing industry veteran Jack Griffin, will become chief executive of Tribune Publishing, the company announced Thursday. Griffin, 53, the former CEO of Time Inc., has spent the last three years heading up Empirical Media, a New York-based consulting firm whose clients included Tribune Co. He will take the reins of Tribune Publishing on April 14. "This is an experienced leadership team, all of whom have the...

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